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Just for the record, many users are happy with base R. There are dozens of us!

R by itself is nice. But the tidyverse is creeping in and bringing dependency hell with it.

http://www.tinyverse.org/

hard second. ggplot2 was the last (only) good package hadley ever wrote; the rest is more about reinventing the wheel and viral-marketing with hex-stickers than about getting work done. the newer stuff in particular is atrocious; heaven forfend function calls that don't require understanding the lore of a package (`recipes` has stupid functions like `recipe`, `bake` and similar nonsense).

at a push, base + data.table + ggplot2 get everything done. tinyverse ftw.

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